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- Have you ever
seen a bald eagle's nest?
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Eagles often use the
same nest year after year,
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and over time, some
nests grow to enormous size,
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many up to nine feet in
diameter and weighing two tons.
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Both parents provide
well for their offspring,
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and the young birds grow
quickly as they eat voraciously,
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adding a pound every five days.
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But eventually
they must learn to fly
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and hunt for themselves.
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Life for young eagles is tough,
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and tragically only 10
to 20% survive to adulthood.
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They get electrocuted
by landing on wires.
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They're hunted by
poachers, hit by vehicles,
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and sometimes
they simply starve.
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They were once
declared an endangered species,
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but they've made a
surprising comeback.
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Because of its grace,
speed, strength, and its size,
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the bald eagle was chosen
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to symbolize the
United States of America.
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Not only do nations
today choose animals
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as their national
mascots or symbols.
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The Bible also
uses different beasts
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to identify the characteristics
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of prominent
kingdoms in prophecy.
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So join me now as we discover
what the Bible really says
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about the future of the
United States of America.
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The title of our
lesson is dealing with
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"A Mother-Daughter Conspiracy,"
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and it's based
upon Mark 6:14-29.
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You'll also find this referenced
in the Book of Matthew.
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Jesus tells us that John
the Baptist was the greatest
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of the prophets, not
that he worked longer,
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he never wrote a book,
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but greatest in his dedication
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in his message to prepare the
way for the king, the Messiah.
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He was that voice
crying in the wilderness,
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bringing the people
of God back to a revival,
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calling the people of
Israel back to their Savior
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and their Lord.
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And because of John's
bold and faithful preaching,
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he was not
intimidated by anyone.
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John the Baptist came in
the spirit and power of Elijah,
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according to the angel
that spoke to his father.
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He was not afraid to say
to the scribes and Pharisees,
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"You den of vipers,
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who has warned you to
flee from the wrath to come?"
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He was also not
afraid to tell King Herod,
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"You are committing adultery
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in that you took your
brother Phillip's wife."
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Her name was Herodias.
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And that really aggravated her,
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and she stayed on King Herod,
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said, "You need to
arrest that loud mouth."
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Finally Herod gave in.
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He had John put in prison
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because of his
audacious preaching,
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but she thought,
"That's not enough.
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Herod likes him."
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He would
occasionally go to the prison
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and listen to John the Baptist
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or have John the
Baptist brought up to the palace
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and speak to him and
put 'em back in jail.
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She said, "Well,
pretty soon, John the Baptist
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is gonna wreck this
arrangement I've got."
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Here's she's like the queen
now that she's enticed the king.
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So Herod had a birthday party,
and she had a clever plan.
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Herod had a few drinks,
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and then she said, "Would
you like my daughter to dance?"
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And he said, "Yeah."
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And as she expected, he
made sort of a pompous boast,
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and he said to Salome if
she'd come out and dance,
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he said, "Ask whatever you will.
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Anything up to half my
kingdom, I'll give it to you."
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So she came out, and
she did her exotic dance
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and entertained king and
all the guests that were there,
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the who's who in
the kingdom of Judah.
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And he said, "What do you want?"
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She wasn't sure what to ask for.
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You think you'd
get a credit card
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for Nordstrom's or something.
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Went to her mother and
said, "What shall I ask for?"
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She said, "You need to ask
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for the head of John
the Baptist on a platter."
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And I don't know
how reluctant she was,
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but that's what she did.
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The Bible tells us:
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"So she went and said to
her mother, 'What shall I ask?'
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She said, 'The head
of John the Baptist.'"
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And when the king
heard this, he was so sorry,
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but he had made a promise,
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and a king
cannot change his word.
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So an executioner went
to the prison forthwith.
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John was unceremoniously
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executed alone,
this great prophet,
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and the head was
brought, it says,
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in a charger to the mother.
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John's disciples later
came and recovered his body
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and buried his body.
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Now, this is not the first time
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that a
mother-daughter team conspires
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to persecute a prophet of God.
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You read in the
prophecies of Revelation
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about
another-mother daughter team
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that persecutes
the prophets of God.
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John introduced
the ministry of Jesus.
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Jesus ministered for
1,260 days, 3 1/2 years.
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But the Bible tells us
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that there's
another mother-daughter team
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that persecuted
the prophets of God.
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That leads us into
our lesson for tonight.
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Question number one,
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what other mother-daughter
team persecuted God's people
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in the Old Testament?
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I think many of you
are acquainted with a name,
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though you may not know
all the story behind it.
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Bible talks about Jezebel,
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killed the prophets of the Lord.
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King Ahab,
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he married a princess
from the kingdom of Tyre,
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and she was all engrossed and
very devoted to Baal worship.
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That's what happens when
you marry outside your faith.
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And she began to push the king
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and push the king
and to push the king.
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The Bible says, "Nobody
in Israel ever sold themself
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to do Israel like Ahab, whom
his wife Jezebel stirred up."
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One time Ahab said,
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"I'd like to have
that vineyard next door,
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but Naboth doesn't
wanna sell it to me."
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She said, "Give
me your signet ring.
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I'll take care of it for you."
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And she arranged a feast,
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had everybody
falsely accuse Naboth.
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He was taken out of the city.
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He was executed, and
she came back and says,
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"Now you can have that vineyard.
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I killed the man who owns it."
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Ruthless woman.
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For 3 1/2 years, she
persecuted the prophets.
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You remember the famine?
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Elijah fled into the
wilderness 1,260 days.
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That time period comes up in
Daniel, speaking of the beast,
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and in Revelation several times.
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Let me give you one more.
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1,260 days was the time of
the famine in the days of Elijah
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when Jezebel was
persecuting the prophets of God.
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Obadiah the prophet hid
a bunch of them in caves.
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You may have read about that.
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1,260 days was a period
of time when Jesus taught,
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and then He was executed.
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1,260 days, 42
months, 3 1/2 years,
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talking about
the Jewish calendar,
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is the period of time
from the time of Christ
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to the stoning of Stephen
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when the gospel then
went to the Gentiles.
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You read in the Book of Esther,
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did you ever catch this?
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"In the third year of
the reign of Ahasuerus,"
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this is how the book begins,
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"he had a feast
lasting 180 days."
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What's half of 360?
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180.
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And at the end of
that period of time,
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Vashti the queen is deposed,
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and they begin the
search ultimately for Esther,
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another 3 1/2.
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You'll find that time
period continues to appear.
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Prophetically, we
learned that from 538 to 1798,
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you've got this other 1,260
year period of time, not days.
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It's when you
use a day for year,
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the Dark Ages when
religion was running things
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in civilization.
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Not only was it Jezebel.
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Jezebel had a daughter.
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Her name was Athaliah.
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It says: "When Athaliah
saw that her son was dead,
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she arose and destroyed
all of the royal heirs,"
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the seed of David.
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She tried to kill 'em all,
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but one young boy
named Joash escaped.
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And ultimately she
ruled for six years,
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and then she was slain.
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Question number two,
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what is the second angel's
message in Revelation 14?
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We talked about the
first angel's message:
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"Fear God and give glory to Him,
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for the hour of
his judgment is come.
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And worship Him that
made the heaven and the earth
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and the sea and the
fountains of waters."
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The second angel has a message.
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You read it in Revelation 14:8:
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"Another angel followed, saying,
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'Babylon is fallen, is
fallen, that great city,
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because she," now is
it talking about a city?
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Is it talking about a church?
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"For she has made all
nations drink of the wine
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of the wrath of
her fornication."
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We'll find out what that wine is
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and who this woman is
and what that city is.
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The Bible is
very clear about that.
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Question number three,
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how does God symbolize
Babylon in Revelation 17?
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If you have your Bibles,
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or you've got your
device with a Bible on it,
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you'll wanna turn there with
me to the Book of Revelation,
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last book in the
Bible, chapter 17.
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And it describes
this very unusual woman.
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Verse one: "Then
one of the seven angels
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who had the seven bowls,"
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these are the seven vials
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with the plagues
that are poured out,
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"he came, and he
talked with me saying,
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'Come, I will
show you the judgment
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of the great harlot
who sits on many waters
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with whom the kings of the earth
have committed fornication,
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and the inhabitants of
the earth were made drunk
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with the wine of
her fornication.'
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So he carried me away in
the spirit into the wilderness.
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And I saw a woman sitting
on a scarlet-colored beast
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which was full of
names of blasphemy,
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having seven heads and 10 horns.
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The woman was arrayed
in purple and scarlet,
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adorned with gold and
precious stones and pearls,
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having in her hand a golden
cup full of the abominations
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and filthiness
of her fornication.
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And on her forehead
a name was written."
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Now, I'm hoping you're
realizing that this is symbolic
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because you're probably
not gonna see too many people
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that have a whole
paragraph on their forehead.
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"On her forehead was written:
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'Mystery, Babylon the
great, the mother of harlots,"
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mother and daughters,
"'and abomination of the earth.'
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"And I saw the woman drunk
with the blood of the saints
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and with the blood
of the martyrs of Jesus.
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And when I saw her, I
marveled with great amazement."
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Now, if you still
got your Bibles open,
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just jump to verse nine.
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The angel begins
to explain the vision:
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"Here is the
mind that has wisdom:
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The seven heads
are seven mountains
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on which the woman sits."
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It's definitely not
talking about ancient Babylon.
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There were no mountains
around ancient Babylon.
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You look in verse 15:
"The waters which you saw,
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where the harlot sits, are
peoples, multitudes, nations."
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It's not one nation.
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Nations this woman is over,
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and tongues,
languages, many languages.
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And if you're in doubt,
you go to the last verse:
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"The woman that you
saw is that great city
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that reigns over
the kings of the earth."
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What great city was
reigning over the kings
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of the earth when
John was imprisoned
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on the island of
Patmos and had his vision?
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So here you have a
picture of a woman.
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What does a woman represent?
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A church.
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This woman has
become unfaithful.
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Tells us, first of all, it
says she's guilty of blasphemy.
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Now when we say blasphemy,
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let's use the
Biblical definition.
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The religious leaders said
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that Jesus was
guilty of blasphemy
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because Jesus
claimed the prerogatives
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that belonged to God.
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That's a
definition for blasphemy.
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When Jesus said he
could forgive sin, they said,
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"That's blasphemy.
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Who can forgive
sin but God alone?"
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They're right, but
Jesus is God the Son, correct?
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It says she's arrayed.
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Here's something very practical.
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It talks about some
of the principle colors.
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She's arrayed in
purple and scarlet
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and adorned with gold and
precious stones and pearls.
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It says she has harlot
daughters who have also fallen.
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Now, the average people
couldn't read the Bible,
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but the priests had them.
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And as they would read
the Bible, often in Latin,
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they realized there
was a great disparity
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between what the
church was practicing
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and the doctrines of the Bible,
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and they would protest.
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And ultimately it
became a showdown.
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On October 31st,
just about 500 years ago,
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a little more
than 500 years ago,
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Martin Luther nailed his
protests, those 95 theses,
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on the doors of
the Wittenberg Church.
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And they said it was
because of certain doctrines,
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but when they came out they
didn't come all the way out.
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What I mean by that is they
protested certain doctrines,
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but they still retained
in their teachings things
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that could not be
found in the Bible
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'cause they were traditions
that they just had for years.
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So just like a mother is
gonna have some resemblance to,
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or daughter's gonna have
some resemblance to the mother,
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these daughters have some
resemblance to the mother.
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And we'll go through
what those characteristics are
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in just a moment.
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Don't go anywhere, friends,
we'll be back in just a moment
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for the rest of
today's presentation.
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You probably already know
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that the United States is one
of the most powerful economic
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and military nations in history.
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But have you ever wondered
if the Bible has anything
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to say about the
US in Bible prophecy?
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What if I told you that it does?
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Would it surprise you?
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Well, it's true.
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Using vivid symbolic imagery,
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the Book of Revelation
details the rise of America
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and the prominent
role that it will play
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in the last days
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and learn some more amazing
facts from the Word of God.
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Says she was a
persecuting power.
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She persecuted and
martyred the saints.
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Now we're living in a
little more sophisticated time
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in history, but if you
go back a few hundred years,
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I don't know if
you've read in history
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about the Spanish Inquisition.
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But Karen and I were in Spain.
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Oh, it's been three
or four years ago now.
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And while we were there,
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we'd go by several of
the shops on the streets,
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and it would
say, pay a few pesos,
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and you can go down and
look at the torture implements
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underneath the churches.
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And we went down, and oh man,
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it was just very disturbing
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to look at
these torture machines
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and tools that they had
to try to get these people
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that were heretics
to recant or repent
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or extracting confessions.
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And I won't even go into detail
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because children
will watch these programs,
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but you can look it
up if you're curious
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if you got a strong stomach.
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And this didn't
happen for a year or two.
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The numbers from historians
are somewhere between 30
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and 50 million
people, Christians and Jews,
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were killed by the church
during this time of persecution.
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Friends, this
was no small thing.
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A few hundred years, we
start forgetting what happened.
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And Jesus did
not operate that way,
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saying, "If you
don't agree with me,
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or you don't follow
me, I'm gonna torture you."
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He invited people to follow.
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If they walked
away, they walked away.
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I mean, Jesus used love.
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He you did not
use force and pain
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to make someone follow Him.
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It's says she sits
upon seven mountains.
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You could Google
it on your phone,
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just don't do it right now,
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city of seven hills.
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So you got a
woman, represents what?
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Church.
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This great city reigns
over the kings of the earth,
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sits among seven hills,
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scarlet and purple, wealth.
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Goes on to say that she's
also got a gold cup in her hand,
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says that she rules
over the kings of the earth.
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You know if you read
anything about history
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during the Dark Ages,
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By the way, you know why
the Dark Ages were called dark?
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'Cause the church said
that the average person
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should not be reading the Bible
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because there's too much risk.
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They won't understand it.
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They said the church
must interpret it for you.
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The Bibles were often in Latin,
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and they were chained in
the walls of the monasteries
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and the churches.
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And the average
person did not have the Word.
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Martin Luther
translated the Bible
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into the language of the people,
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as did Wycliffe
and many of the others.
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They wanted to give
the Word to the people,
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and that's when there
was an explosion of belief
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and revival when the people
could read for themselves.
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Jesus spoke to
the common people.
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Anyone can understand
the teachings of Christ.
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That was called the Dark Ages
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because the Bible
is a lamp to my feet
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and a light to my path.
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You take away the
light, you've got darkness.
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That's what happened.
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How do the beasts of
Revelation 13 and 17 compare?
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It tells us: "I stood
upon the sand of the sea,
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and I saw a beast
rising up out of the sea,
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having seven heads and 10 horns,
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and on his heads
a blasphemous name."
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Now, not only do you see
this here in Revelation 13:1.
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You look in Revelation 12,
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and it talks about a beast
with seven heads and 10 horns.
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Now, if you're
driving down the road,
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you've seen a deer
crossing before, right?
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Have you ever seen a
crossing where you got a beast
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with seven heads and 10 horns?
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No.
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And it says: "I
saw a woman sitting
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on a scarlet beast which
was full of names of blasphemy,
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having seven
heads and 10 horns."
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It's very interesting
that you've got this beast.
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Now is this a literal
beast in the last days,
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or is it a symbol?
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This is symbolic.
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So there's a big similarity.
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Revelation 12,
you've got that beast,
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and it says that
it's the power of Rome
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that tries to destroy
the baby, the manchild,
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as soon as it was born.
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The Roman power tried to destroy
Jesus when he was a baby.
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What is the meaning and
the origin of the word Babylon?
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Well, you go back
to the Tower of Babel.
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You read in Genesis 11:4,6,7:
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"Let us build ourselves a city
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and a tower whose
top is in the heavens.
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And the Lord said,
'Let us go down there
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and confuse their language,
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that they may not understand
one another's speech.'
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Therefore the name
of it is called Babel
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because there the Lord confused
the language of the earth."
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So one of the characteristics
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of Babylon is
confusion of doctrines.
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There's just a lot of
different beliefs out there
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that leave people wondering
what in the world is going on.
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There's a confusion in Babylon.
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How does God describe Babylon
in urging His people to leave?
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Revelation 18:2,
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and it says, "He cried
mightily with a loud voice,
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saying, 'Babylon the
great is fallen, is fallen,
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and has become the
dwelling place of demons
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and the prison of
every foul spirit.'"
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Now why does he say,
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"Babylon the great
is fallen, is fallen?"
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Well, you had the fall of
Babylon back when the children
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of Israel were in
Babylon in the Old Testament.
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But then Babylon falls
again in prophetic times.
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Now let me put you in the
Bible mind for just a moment.
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The children of Israel,
they were captives in Babylon,
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but long before that,
where did Abraham come from?
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Mesopotamia.
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Abraham brought his wife and
his family out of Mesopotamia,
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the same region of Babylon.
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Anything that was
over the Euphrates River
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was in that territory.
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He brought her out of
Babylon into the promised land.
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Abraham then has a son.
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What's his name? Isaac.
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And God says to Abraham,
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"Don't want your son marrying
one of these Canaanite girls.
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He's gotta go back
and bring his wife out."
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So a servant comes and
gets a wife named Rebecca,
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brings her out of Mesopotamia
into the promised land.
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Jacob then goes
looking for a wife.
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Where's he go?
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Back across the Euphrates.
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He ends up with four
for the price of one.
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He gets Rachel and her sister
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and the two
handmaids and all the kids.
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They come out of
Babylon into the promised land.
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Then the children of Israel,
because of their unfaithfulness,
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are conquered by Nebuchadnezzar.
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They're carried
off to Mesopotamia.
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After 70 years in Mesopotamia,
Cyrus the Persian comes,
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conquers Belshazzar,
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and he says, "I'm
gonna let the people go."
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Now the problem is whenever
you stay someplace for 70 years,
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I've seen how much stuff I
bring when I go on a weekend.
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You ever go
camping for a weekend,
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and you come back with just
half the food is still there?
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If you stay
somewhere for 70 years,
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and you make friends
and you have a family,
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and you learn the language,
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and then all of a
sudden after 70 years
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of being in a country
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and really getting to
where you kind of feel at home,
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then God says
through his prophets,
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"Let's go back to
the promised land."
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You go, "Oh
that sounds exciting,
00:21:55.91\00:21:58.38
sounds like an adventure,
00:21:58.41\00:21:59.71
but kind of
comfortable right now."
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God says, "You need
to come out of Babylon
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'cause plagues are
gonna fall on Babylon.
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You need to go to the land
like your father Abraham did,
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where I'm gonna give
you this land forever.
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You need to have faith.
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Trust me."
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There was a lot of reluctance
among the children of Israel
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and Babylon about coming out.
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In the last days,
God is calling people
00:22:19.37\00:22:22.00
that believe His Word
back to the Word of God.
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Now that's gonna mean for
some people changing churches.
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That is not easy.
00:22:30.08\00:22:32.01
People say, "Oh, our family's
been believing these things
00:22:32.05\00:22:34.68
and part of this
church for years.
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All our friends are there."
00:22:36.65\00:22:38.59
Are they teaching the truth?
00:22:38.62\00:22:40.39
Are they practicing,
00:22:40.42\00:22:41.72
are they proclaiming
the truth of Jesus Christ?
00:22:41.76\00:22:44.73
Babylon is fallen.
00:22:44.76\00:22:46.06
Come before it's too late
00:22:46.09\00:22:48.33
'cause when Jesus comes back,
00:22:48.36\00:22:50.40
He's gonna have a united people
00:22:50.43\00:22:52.57
that are building
once again on the Word.
00:22:52.60\00:22:54.34
Jesus said when the storm comes,
00:22:54.37\00:22:57.14
wise man builds on
the what? The rock.
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Foolish man builds on the?
00:22:59.87\00:23:01.54
See, you know that story.
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You sing about it, right?
00:23:03.65\00:23:06.48
And what is that rock?
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"He that hears these
words of mine and does them,
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he'll be like the wise
man building on the rock."
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Hearing the word and what?
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Doing it, doing the Word.
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When the storm comes,
00:23:20.26\00:23:21.53
you realize the storm
comes to the wise man,
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and the storm comes to the fool?
00:23:23.53\00:23:25.23
Jesus says not
if the storm comes.
00:23:25.27\00:23:28.04
He says when the storm comes.
00:23:28.07\00:23:29.67
Friends, a storm is coming,
00:23:29.70\00:23:31.77
and the only way we're
gonna get through that storm
00:23:31.81\00:23:33.71
is to be founded on the
rock of Jesus and His truth.
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And this is a message
that's going to the world
00:23:37.15\00:23:39.21
in the last days.
00:23:39.25\00:23:40.55
It doesn't matter
how comfortable we are
00:23:40.58\00:23:42.62
in the various teachings.
00:23:42.65\00:23:45.45
We need to come back to
the Word in these last days.
00:23:45.49\00:23:48.99
So he cries
mightily, "Babylon is fallen.
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Come out of her, my people,
lest you share in her sins."
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Now, see, when
people don't know something,
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that's one thing, but
once we know God's will,
00:23:58.47\00:24:01.10
if we continue persisting
in disobeying, it becomes sin.
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Let me illustrate.
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Years ago, I need two
hands for this illustration.
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Years ago, I heard about a
man that had a fabric shop,
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and this is back in England.
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They used to pick
the size of the foot,
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and the inch was based upon
the size of the king's foot.
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And so this man had a
yardage shop, and he sold cloth.
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And for years, he sold to
everybody in the community,
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and he'd measure
it off on his table.
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He had this tape measure,
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and he'd measure off the
cloth, and then he'd cut it.
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And he'd sell it, wrap
it up to the customers.
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And one day after
30 years in his shop,
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someone came in to buy some
cloth, and they went back home.
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They came back and said,
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"I went to make some
pillows out of that cloth,
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and you sold me short."
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He said, "Absolutely not."
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He said, "Bring me the cloth."
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And he put it
back together again,
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and he said,
"Look, it matches up."
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And they pulled
out a tape measure,
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and they measured his
tape measure on the table,
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and his tape measure on the
table was like two inches short.
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And he was stunned by
this 'cause he's an honest man,
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and evidently the king had
died somewhere during the time,
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and they had
changed the standard.
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And the standard had changed,
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but he hadn't changed his table.
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Well, he didn't know.
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He may have been robbing
people without knowing it
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because there
was something wrong
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with his scale, his measurement.
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You see what I'm saying?
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But once that is
brought to his attention,
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it was not a sin before.
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Once that is
brought to his attention,
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if he continues using
that faulty measurement,
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is he still an honest man?
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No, 'cause now he knows.
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See what I'm saying?
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And so some of you are saying,
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"Pastor Doug, I wish he
never came to this seminar
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'cause now I
just know too much."
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Don't, the
truth is not a burden.
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It's a blessing.
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The truth will
set you free, amen?
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- [Congregant] Yes.
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- What will prevent
God's end-time people
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from being deceived?
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Only one thing, friends:
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"To the law and the testimony.
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If they do not speak
according to this word,"
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that's the Word of God,
the law and the prophets,
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"there is no light in them."
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We need to follow the
light in the last days.
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Now in Noah's day,
there's only one way of escape,
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and that way of
escape was to get in the ark.
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There's one ark.
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There was one door in the ark,
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and He called His
people into the safety of that.
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And I think you've heard
God's voice tonight speaking
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through His Word, and He wants
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He says, "Come
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